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Top 10 Biographies for Youth: 2013.

Cooper, Ilene (author).

Legendary figures—from Mata Hari to Mahalia Jackson, the Marquis de Lafayette to Martin Luther King—appear in these best biographies for young readers. The titles were chosen from books reviewed in Booklist between June 1, 2012, and May 15, 2013.

Brown collected fossils from boyhood. As an adult, he found lots of bones, but he wasn’t satisfied until he discovered the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. A biography brimming with personality and illustrated with lively, intricate art.

The Pinkneys use their considerable talents to weave together the stories of Martin Luther King and Mahalia Jackson, who forged a collaboration that carried them to King’s speech at the Lincoln Memorial.